The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.